I find the comment 'The suggestion that you’ve got to apply the human rights convention even on the battle-fields of Helmand' flabbergasting. THE ENTIRE POINT of Human Rights is that they apply everywhere.

I've previously been saying "From a self-interest PoV, I'd probably benefit from Scotland staying, but if I lived there, I'd vote Yes in a shot" But after the sheer level of talking down to people in that ad, fuck it, run free Scotland, and I'll just blame the idiots who made this.

'Six years ago, a satire site wrote a story about how the copyright industry wanted more money if you invited friends to watch a movie in your living room. This notion has now been patented in new technology'

Short version? Vetoing individual words in bills = craaaazy. Long version: Okay, if you want to have individuals elected to be in charge of large areas, and invest them with a lot of power, then letting them veto bills somewhat follows from that. But turning 700 words into 20, and a page or so worth of sentences to "Move this from here to there" is... flabbergasting.